Video: Woman & child step off platform & fall on subway tracks

Cambridge
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CCTV cameras in the Boston-area subway caught the scene as a woman walks off the platform, falling on the tracks, holding her 4-year-old child. Commuters came to the rescue.

The CCTV footage is a handout from MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority), and shows the woman absent-mindedly stepping off the platform at the MIT/Kendall Square station in Cambridge, falling onto the tracks and narrowly missing the electrified third rail.

Commuters on the scene are being praised for their quick response in rescuing the woman and her four-year-old son.

According to RT, Meera Thakrar of Attleboro, thought the train on the outbound platform at the station in Cambridge was at her platform. Thakrar says she didn't even think, she just walked right off the edge of the platform and crumpled to the ground.